Multimedia | journal article
“Beavering”
In a carbon-sequestering wetland on Maine’s Mid-Coast, a quirky human-beaver relationship unfolds each year.
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Multimedia | journal article
“The Value of Fragments: Making a Hotspot in Mount Nimba, Liberia”
Emmanuelle Roth and Gregg Mitman write about how capitalism fragments nature to create value. Such fragments can precipitate biodiversity loss.
Arcadia
The Colonial Roots of the Kangaroo Controversy
This article situates contemporary debates over kangaroo-population management within Australia’s violent history of settler-colonial occupation and attendant environmental transformations.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada
In this book, author and cultural historian L. Sasha Gora blends food studies with environmental history to explore how Indigenous restaurants reshape relationships between cuisine, land, and cultural identity in Canada.
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“Avian Escapees and Budgie Snugglers”
When is it defensible to keep birds in confinement, and what do we owe those who escape?
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“Killing a Baboon: Applied History and the Anthropocene Ape”
Processing the horrid February 2025 “Killing [of] a Baboon” by a group of schoolchildren in Delmas, South Africa, Sandra Swart looks back at history and examines the role of superstition and the occult in the ongoing violence against these primates.
Arcadia
“Cozy Families” or “Hideous Brutes”?—Working with Southern Elephant Seals on the French Kerguelen Islands
In 1908, Raymond Rallier du Baty and his crew struggled to reconcile their sympathy for elephant seals with their violence against them.
Arcadia
Plastics in the Peaks: The Hidden Threat to Himalayan Wildlife
As Himalayan wildlife is endangered by improper waste disposal practices, activist groups like Waste Warriors are working to solve this crisis.
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Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control
Excerpt from Species Cleansing: The Cultural Practice of Rat Control by Gabriela Jarzębowska.
Multimedia | film profile
Maya Land: Listening to the Bees
A story about the environmental conflict between GM soy growers and Maya beekeepers in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.